Friends Turned Lovers | Short Story | COMPLETE

14. Realization 💚

Although it had been months since Toya's encounter with her mother she had still been distant. Isaiah and Kiari had both agreed to let her have her time because they knew that this was a sensitive time for her.

Each day for her lately had been like a movie playing on repeat. Eat, sleep, shower, school, that's all she was in the mood for.

She had long accepted the fact that this was her life and she'll never have that bond with her mother or sister ever again. Life could've been much worse but God had other plans for her, she knew that God gave the toughest battles to his strongest fighters. So that's exactly what she was going to do, she was tired of laying around so she climbed out of bed and headed towards the entertainment room.

Isaiah was laid out on the couch watching Fast & Furious 6 stuffing his face with a variety of snacks. Toya chuckled and shook her head. "You're home on a Saturday? That's a first." she said as she laid across his back and stuck her hand into his bag of chips.

"Ain't shit out there to do just yet." he shrugged as he positioned them so that he was now laid behind her with one arm wrapped around her making her let out a sigh of relief. He chuckled and placed a soft kiss on her cheek.

Toya would be lying if she said her feelings didn't run deep for Isaiah, every since she could remember she'd had a crush on him. It wasn't until last week that the realization set in that he just might feel the same way about her.

Toya and Syd had just walked into Algebra class and were going to their seats when all of a sudden an arm was draped around Toya's shoulder. Confused, she turned her head and came face to face with Cyrus. She instantly pushed him away from her and stale faced him.

"Why you always doing me like that baby girl. You know you want me?" he smirked as he slightly lifted her chin to look at him.

"What part of not interested do you not understand? The not or the interested part?" she asked as she mugged him and pushed past him. The class was pretty quiet, so all the students heard the encounter between the two and began to snicker making Cyrus's face flush with embarrassment.

"Nobody want ya flat ass anyways, ya mama didn't even want you" he said as he shrugged and turned to go to his seat. What he didn't know was that Isaiah was walking into the classroom and heard everything.

So when he turned around and a fist connected with his left cheek confusion plagued him. The punch was so powerful that his entire body rotated back to its original position. By this time there was a crowd of students that were in the hallway now in the classroom as Isaiah sent non stop blows to every part of Cyrus's body.

"ISAIAH STOP! HE'S NOT WORTH IT!" Toya shouted as she made her way through the crowd in an attempt to pull him from beating the boy half to death. Her pleads fell on deaf ears as the two boys fought as if they were strangers on the street.

It took five staff members and two upperclassmen to break the two up and even when they did Isaiah still tried his hardest to go back for more. He had warned Cyrus plenty of times about how he acted when it came to LaToya and today was the icing on the cake. There was no way he'd allow anybody to talk crazy to or about her.

"It's really like that Luckie man?" Cyrus asked, calling Isaiah by his nickname as he dabbed at his bloody nose. "What happened to bros before hoes?"